The Christian Counselor's Manual is a companion and sequel to the author's influential Competent to Counsel. It takes the approach of Nouthetic counseling introduced in the earlier volume and applies it to a wide range of issues, topics and techniques in counseling: Who is qualified to be a counselor? How can counselees change? How does the Holy Spirit work? What role does hope play? What is the function of language? How do we ask the right questions? What often lies behind depression? How do we deal with anger? What is schizophrenia?